Anymeal is a Linux recipe database software developed using MySQL and XML to maintain a cookbook. It can handle more than 100,000 recipes and allows to search, display and edit recipes. It is designed to be lean and flexible. Happy cooking!

AnyMeal has reached alpha-status. Now the focus is on stability and making out important features, which may be missing.

Changelog:

0.31:
MySQL 5.0 handles booleans in a different way which required a bugfix in AnyMeal (the bug was "SAXParseException: Invalid character (Unicode: 0x1)").

0.30:
The speed of the recipe-display was improved. A man-page was contributed by Sandro Tosi.

0.29-4:
Minor fixes: The configure-script was not generating the file docbookToFo.xsl. An include-statement was missing in the file destroyDialog.ui.

0.29-3:
Bugfix: Declaration and a definition in different namespaces (bug report by mmpm).

0.29-2:
A line with whitespace-characters in a Mealmaster recipe now will be correctly threated as an empty line.

0.29:
Leading whitespaces in recipe-instructions in Mealmaster files are skipped now.
Added experimental import of RecipeML-files.

recipe database

I'd love to install your rpm because I'm a food buff and an amateur chef. Since I'm a new SuSE Linux user I'm scared away by the pre-alpha version comment. I have trouble already operating with 1.0 versions of software so I'd better wait a bit. But I'll be back after I've read my Pocketguide Linux and feel I can handle things more confidently. Because I want those recipes...yum!

Pre-alpha means, that the functionallity is not complete.
I put a more recent rpm-file for SuSE 9.1/i586 on http://sourceforge.net/projects/anymeal/.
Note, that the rpm-files are requiring MySQL 4.1.
You may find it hard to get MySQL running in the beginning (I put documentation on how to do this on the "Homepage"). However it'll may useful in other contexts later as well.
AnyMeal only is a software for searching through a huge amount of recipes. You can get tons of recipes already from http://thehoseys.com/recipes.html.
Enjoy!

MySQL 4.1 & cooking

Thanks Jan, much appreciated. I'll have to take some time to study the basics of my new operating system and related software before giving MySQL a go. The Greek terminology too :-) since it's meaning varies in different contexts showing from your correction of my misconception. The link is great! Now I won't starve while studying basic Linux 'recipes' and eventually arrive at a level hopefully where I can handle Linux 'haute cuisine'. Then of course I'll be wireless in the kitchen using 'anymeal'.
Peter.

Never mind. English is not my first language either ;). Thanks for your bug-report!

The constructor for XalanDOMString has been modified with version 1.9 of the Xalan-C library. I've modified AnyMeal accordingly and tested the build with Xalan-c 1.9, which I temporarily installed on my deprecated system :-(

You can download and install the new version 0.20-2 now. Let me know, if there are other problems.

My impressions

I have been using Krecipes for a while, but it kept on slowing down further and further as it got more recipes.

I am now running anymeal with 150,000+ recipes imported, and it's much, much smoother. It was difficult to get hold of the compilation dependencies, but I guess those dependencies are the reason it can handle large databases.

I miss the KRecipes interface though. The most import parts for me are a KDE integrated interface, a better search interface and a more readable recipe display. Also being able to import RecipeML directly would be nice.

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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